Is This World Real?

Some 4-5 years ago, I was reading the Indian scripture Yoga Vasishta . It wasn’t easy to understand. Just like any other scripture, we need a teacher. Rishi Vasistha tells this to prince Ram (Lord Ram’s era was 7600 BC) –   

‘..this world you see is not real’

(not verbatim or translation).

I did not really think much about it when I read that, coz the concept of maya (illusion) wasn’t anything new to me. So, I thought it in that direction, though I knew that Yoga Vasishta is very hard to digest and it has great depths.

Today, I was checking my son’s school bag and there comes a worksheet about Electromagnetic spectrum. I had studied this and still remember some basic things about it. But I happened to stare at the diagram and then it was a real surprise for me.

Look at the range starting from Extremely low frequency. It goes to super low, voice frequency, very low, low, medium, high, very high, super high, extremely high, radio waves, far infrared, mid infrared, near infrared, VISIBLE LIGHT, near ultraviolet, extremely ultraviolet, soft X-rays, hard X-rays and gamma rays. From the range of 1 meter to less than 1 Nano meter, what we humans can see is ONLY 700 to 400 nm. Not even 10 percent of the whole range.

How does a snake see us? Its vision is infrared vision. They see the world in a totally different way than we humans do. We do not know how every species of living things exactly see this world (scientists say bulls are color blind but I have personally been attacked by a cow when I was wearing a red Tshirt. Same thing happened with my wife on another occasion by another street cow. I still do not understand this)

So, what we see with our naked eye is the only reality?